Improvement in attachments for wash-boilers



CHAR LES w. STERICK.

lmproveme nt in Attachments for-Wash Boilers.

Patented Nov. 7, 1871.

"Witnesses:

flttorneys.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHARLES W. STERIOK, OF NORTHUMBERLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM A. MID- nLEroor HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR WASH-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,792, datedNovember7, 1871.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SrERroK, of Northumberland, in the countyof Northumberland and in the State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in VVHJSII'BOHGIS; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to theletters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of myinvention consists in the construction and arrangementof an attachment for wash-boilers, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction andoperation, referring to the annexed drawing whichrepresents a perspective view of my wash-boiler attachment.

A represents a metallic rim of suitable height, made to fit around theinside of a wash-boiler, and provided with a bottom, B. This bottom issoldered or otherwise attached to the inner sides of the rim A, at ornear the lower edge, and is either inclined or curved, so as to behigher in the center than at the sides. The rise in the center should beabout as high'as the upper edges of the rim A. At the ends the bottom Bhas suitable openings to allow the water to pass down under the bottom,and above each end of the bottom is a plate, 0, attached to the upperedge of the rim A. Through these plates 0 0 pass tubes D D, which may beconstructed in any suitable manner to conduct the steam and water on topof the clothes. attached to the upper edges of the rim A, and eitherpassing over or through the rise in the center of the bottom B andforming a grating upon which the clothes are laid. This attachment forwash-boilers may be made in one piece, as described, or in two piecesoverlapping each other in the center, so that it may be extended orcontracted to fit difi'erent-Sized wash-boilers.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, iS-

The combination of the rim A, bottom B raised in the center, plates 0 G,tubes D D, and rods E E, all constructed and arranged as described toform attachment for wash-boilers, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my handthis27th day of September,

CHARLES W. STERICK.

Witnesses M. S. BOWER,

E E represent rods

